The (Un)Heard Voice
The Case of Australian Aboriginal Peoples Today
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4454/syn.v5.1201Keywords:
Aboriginal Self-Determination, First Nations' voice, Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum, ParliamentAbstract
This article explores various aspects of the historical and socio-cultural context in Australia, where the Government has taken steps to move toward a plea for forgiveness and reconciliation. This comes after the Aboriginal people called for a Voice in Parliament, as a result of the National Indigenous Constitutional Convention in Uluru, held on 24th-26th May 2017. The formal apology issued in 2008 by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the so-called ‘Sorry Speech’, was followed by a whole series of laws, further speeches and line-ups, all intent on adding pragmatic connotations to the symbolism of ‘sorry’. After an excursus tracing the main events of the transitional period, going from Integration to Self-Determination, attention will be given to the present day. References will be made to the choices that led to the constitutional referendum of 14th October 2023, which endeavoured to give voice to First Nations.
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